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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 54 )of Christ and the nature of his mission, or was it about the Apostle of Allah asforetold by Jacob (Gen. xlix.)? Whatwere the precise terms of John’s witness aboutJesus(pbuh), and about the future Prophet who was his superior?In the third article of this series,13 I offered ample proofs that the Prophet foretold by the Baptist was other than Jesus Christ(pbuh); and in the fourth article,14we find several argumentsin favour of the Apostle of Allah as being a superior and more powerful Prophet than John.The principal point which constitutes the power and the superiority of the Prince of the Apostles of Allah is the baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire. The admission by the author of the Fourth Gospel that Jesus(pbuh) and his disciples also used to baptize with water simultaneously with John the Baptist (pbuh) is an abrogation de facto of the parenthetical note that “Jesus(pbuh) did not baptize himself, but his disciples only” (John iii. 23 and iv. 1, 2). However, granting that he himself did not baptize, the admission that his disciples did, while yet initiates and unlearned, shows that their baptism was of the same nature as that of John’s. Considering the fact that Jesus (pbuh) during the period of his earthly mission administered that rite exactly as the Baptist was doing at the streams or pools of water, and that he ordered his disciples to continue the same, it becomes as evident and as clear as a barn door that he was not the person intended by the Crier in the Wilderness when he foretold the advent of a powerful Prophet with the baptism of the Spirit and fire. It does notrequire much learning or an extraordinary intelligence to understand the force of the argument — namely, Jesus(pbuh)during hislifetime baptized not a single person with the Holy Spirit and with fire. How, then, can he be regarded as the Baptizer with the Holy13 Vide Islamic Review for March - April 1930. (The author).14 Ibid. May 1930. (The author).